Re: Working with seconds, what am I missing?

2012-04-23 Thread Kay C Lan
Andy, As you've discovered seconds is based on GMT so it will cause differences based on everyone's system settings, there are work arounds as suggested but it may be easier just to: put the date into tDate convert tDate to dateItems put tDate The output will always be ,MM,DD,HH,MM,SS,day

Time-Stamping Demo programs via substacks?

2012-04-23 Thread Richmond
Um: --30 Day code-- if the fld STAMP of stack STAMP is empty then set the lockScreen to true put the seconds into into fld STAMP of stack STAMP save stack STAMP set the lockScreen to false end if put the seconds into DAZE30 put fld STAMP of stack STAMP into TSTAMP if DAZE30

Time-Stamping Demo programs #2

2012-04-23 Thread Richmond
Um: --30 Day code-- if the fld STAMP of stack STAMP is empty then set the lockScreen to true put the seconds into into fld STAMP of stack STAMP save stack STAMP set the lockScreen to false end if put the seconds into DAZE30 put fld STAMP of stack STAMP into TSTAMP if DAZE30

Re: Working with seconds, what am I missing?

2012-04-23 Thread Richmond
What happens if you do a put the seconds on a computer that is not internet connected? Andy, As you've discovered seconds is based on GMT so it will cause differences based on everyone's system settings, there are work arounds as suggested but it may be easier just to: put the date into tDate

Re: Time-Stamping Demo programs #2

2012-04-23 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Richmond, Standalones can't write to themselves and thus your standalone can't save anything in a substack. You can create a separate stack file in a different folder, e.g. application data on Windows, Preferences on Mac OS X and the Home folder on Linux and save time stamp in that stack

Re: Time-Stamping Demo programs #2

2012-04-23 Thread Richmond
On 04/23/2012 11:37 AM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Hi Richmond, Standalones can't write to themselves and thus your standalone can't save anything in a substack. You can create a separate stack file in a different folder, e.g. application data on Windows, Preferences on Mac OS X and the Home

Re: Working with seconds, what am I missing?

2012-04-23 Thread Kay C Lan
What always happens. On a Mac, when you set it up it will ask you where you live and give you a map, from the Time Zone tab of the Date Time preference pane to click on. Once you provided the answer, and assuming you've given it the correct time to start with, it will calculate UTC (politically

Re: Working with seconds, what am I missing?

2012-04-23 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Thanks everyone, From all the tests this seems to be the best option, but converting the date to the date items it comes back reliably with the same date and time on all settings ive tried, eg UK and US, switching the computers date in and out of daylight savings time etc. Its odd as I had

Re: Time-Stamping Demo programs via substacks?

2012-04-23 Thread Pierre Sahores
Richmond, The best way to go is to call the DAZE30 function from your standalone and compare it with a TSTAMP reference stored on the cloud so your customers won't find any local file to delete to get a way to bypass your 30 days try-period key. HTH, Le 23 avr. 2012 à 10:31, Richmond a écrit

Re: Time-Stamping Demo programs #2

2012-04-23 Thread Richmond
On 04/23/2012 11:37 AM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Hi Richmond, Standalones can't write to themselves and thus your standalone can't save anything in a substack. You can create a separate stack file in a different folder, e.g. application data on Windows, Preferences on Mac OS X and the Home

Re: Time-Stamping Demo programs #2

2012-04-23 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi, Yes, it will. I would use a time limitation using a separate file together with a functional limitation, e.g. the inability to save documents. Actually, I rarely use time limitations for my own products, because I believe that every time a user starts up your software is a potential

Re: Time-Stamping Demo programs #2

2012-04-23 Thread Richmond
On 04/23/2012 12:30 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Hi, Yes, it will. I would use a time limitation using a separate file together with a functional limitation, e.g. the inability to save documents. Actually, I rarely use time limitations for my own products, because I believe that every time a

Re: install fail inconsistent certificates (Android)

2012-04-23 Thread Nicolas Cueto
The development certificate is dynamically created in the .android folder. So every machine will have a different one. You could try copying the debug.keystore from one machine to all the others and overwrite the one that had been created on the other machines. Never tried it but it might

Re: Time-Stamping Demo programs via substacks?

2012-04-23 Thread Richmond
In the clouds, baby! That presupposes that my target demographic are all connected, permanently, to the internet; and they are not. Richmond, The best way to go is to call the DAZE30 function from your standalone and compare it with a TSTAMP reference stored on the cloud so your customers

Re: Time-Stamping Demo programs

2012-04-23 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Richmond wrote : Blast! I am trying to find a way so that I don't have a file floating about on somebody's system that they can just flush away to reset the 30 day limit on my DEMO. Richmond, forgive me if I am being obtuse, but I don't see the problem. Create a

Re: Time-Stamping Demo programs

2012-04-23 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Francis, Using software that keeps a list of all existing files, it is easy to find newly created files. This way, it is very easy to find preferences files and secret license files. On the other hand, I believe that only very few people actually do this. Most people just delete the

Re: Animation

2012-04-23 Thread bar...@libero.it
Dear J.Downs Derek Bump posted Building a Side-Scrolling Game in Revolution in this list on September 10th 2009 you can find the whole message at the list archives, http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-livecode/2009-September/128220.html and then download the stack from his site from the link

Re: Animation

2012-04-23 Thread BNig
Dereks game can be found on rev-online http://revonline2.runrev.com/stack/359/Side-Scrolling-Game-Test If rev-online works for you from within LiveCode then you can also access it from user samples or menu Development - Rev Online Kind regards Bernd -- View this message in context:

Re: Livecode blows a Raspberry?

2012-04-23 Thread Richard Gaskin
varvar chemrama wrote: Re: Livecode blows a Raspberry? LiveCode does not currently support ARM/Linux (as opposed to (de facto) ARM/Android). OK, I had made the original request in January to LiveCode Dev for a ARM/Linux port, anticipating release of the Raspberry Pi. If you're in the dev

Re: Augmented reality

2012-04-23 Thread paolo mazza
Monte you are right, it is too early ask for samples. However, in theory, do you think is it possible to create an Augmented Reality application using your external to manage the Relevant Points on the map? All the best Paolo ___ use-livecode mailing

Streaming video in a multi platform application

2012-04-23 Thread paolo mazza
What's the best solution in LiveCode to show Streaming Videos ? Consider an application (for Mac, Windows and Mobile) with a player/window to show videos coming from a Streaming Server. The iOS video player is reliable? How can I show videos in a Windows and MAC applications ? All the best

Re: Streaming video in a multi platform application

2012-04-23 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Paolo, I don't know what is best, but the rtsp protocol with a video format that QuickTime understands works fine on Mac and Windows, provided that QuickTime is installed. I would expect this to work on iOS as well but I haven't tried that with LC yet. -- Economy-x-Talk Consultancy

Re: in-App Reviews

2012-04-23 Thread Bob Sneidar
Just make sure you give the user a Never Ask Me Again option. An app that keeps asking me to review it or upgrade it is irritating to me. Parallels does that, and they do have a Don't Ask Again checkbox, but it only applies to THAT particular version of Parallels, and when there is a minor

Re: in-App Reviews

2012-04-23 Thread Colin Holgate
You can use a shared object to note whether the user has previously clicked on your Write Review button, or perhaps on the Never Ask Me Again button. Here's the code I use to go directly from within my app to the list of reviews for the app in the App Store app: public function toreview() {

Re: in-App Reviews

2012-04-23 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 4/23/12 10:43 AM, Dan Friedman wrote: Greetings! I would like to prompt the user to rate my app. Something like every 10 launches the app throws a dialog asking the user if they want to leave a positive review. I'd think twice about that. At least on Android, people detest it and will

Re: in-App Reviews

2012-04-23 Thread Colin Holgate
My answer no doubt confused everyone! There is someone on a Flash list I'm on that has a similar name to Dan, and I though I was reading that list. The solution still applies, in LiveCode you should be able to do this: launch url

Journalism

2012-04-23 Thread Richmond
There are now over 60 universities in the UK offering BA honours degrees in journalism. http://www.city.ac.uk/arts/journalism Leeds: http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/ug/ Journalism Studies at Sheffield also ranked 1st under the Times Good University Guide 2009 subject league table for Communications

Re: Journalism

2012-04-23 Thread Tim Jones
Spam??? Someone's email account has been hacked? Otherwise, how is this apropos to LiveCode? On Apr 23, 2012, at 10:11 AM, Richmond wrote: There are now over 60 universities in the UK offering BA honours degrees in journalism. ___ use-livecode

Re: ANN: Radial Dial Making Utility

2012-04-23 Thread Mark Smith
Roger Guay wrote Hi All, RadialDialOmatic is a utility I created to make nice (even if I say so myself) Radial Dials. With RevOnLine still down, I'm afraid you will have to go to my downloads page to get it: Roger Roger, your stuff is always so cool! -- Mark -- View this message

Re: Streaming video in a multi platform application

2012-04-23 Thread Paolo Mazza
Hi Mark, Unfortunately most of win-pc have not Quick Time. Any other solution? All the best Paolo Il giorno 23/apr/2012, alle ore 17:59, Mark Schonewille m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com ha scritto: Hi Paolo, I don't know what is best, but the rtsp protocol with a video format that

Re: Streaming video in a multi platform application

2012-04-23 Thread François Chaplais
my son is a student in 3D and video effects, and his teachers advise the students to export their video to .mp4 format for best compatibility, which is I think MPEG 4 without the quicktime embedding. The following movie has been finalized on windows and plays fine in Safari on my mac. Give it a

Re: Augmented reality

2012-04-23 Thread Monte Goulding
Hi Paolo You get callbacks when the use selects, deselects and taps the annotation callout. One thing you could do is have the map in part of your screen and when the user selects an annotation ask a question about that location on the other part of the screen. If they get the answer right you

Re: Streaming video in a multi platform application

2012-04-23 Thread François Chaplais
It also plays on the iPhone (I just checked) F. Le 23 avr. 2012 à 22:13, Paolo Mazza a écrit : Hi Mark, Unfortunately most of win-pc have not Quick Time. Any other solution? All the best Paolo ___ use-livecode mailing list

reposition single-line text to the left or right?

2012-04-23 Thread Nicolas Cueto
Hello All, On the keyboard I made for my Android app, a typed letter gets added after the last typed letter onto a single-line text field (locked and wrap off). When the string of letters reaches the field's far-right, newly typed letters of course get added but out of sight off-field. Is there

Re: Working with seconds, what am I missing?

2012-04-23 Thread Kay C Lan
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Andrew Henshaw hens...@me.com wrote: Its odd as I had expected livecode to convert the seconds to and from a date in the same way as all the online tools that convert unix time based on seconds since the epoch, but apparently it does depend on which format

Re: Time-Stamping Demo programs #2

2012-04-23 Thread Kay C Lan
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.comwrote: Blast! I am trying to find a way so that I don't have a file floating about on somebody's system that they can just flush away to reset the 30 day limit on my DEMO. I'm assuming then you must have some sort of

Re: ANN: Radial Dial Making Utility

2012-04-23 Thread tbodine
S easy! Thanks! Tom Bodine -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/ANN-Radial-Dial-Making-Utility-tp4571602p4582321.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-livecode

LC for Android: Retrieve center lat n lng from LC browser using google maps?

2012-04-23 Thread Barry G. Sumpter
Hi all, I'm using the LC for Android browser. I've got a web page .html that will allow me to pin point a specific location on a Google map. The HTML will display the lat n lng of that address and the closest matching address. I would like to be able to access that info. And perhaps save to a db

[OT] The State Of HTML5 Video UPDATE

2012-04-23 Thread stephen barncard
http://www.longtailvideo.com/html5/ this is an update of Longtail's comprehensive and concise report about the state of HTML5 and the browsers that support it. The numbers have changed significantly. I've found this company's HTML5 media player (JWPlayer) to be one of the best performing and